Since World War II North Americans have invested much of their newfound wealth in suburbia. It has promised a sense of space, affordability, family life and upward mobility. As the population of suburban sprawl has exploded in the past 50 years Suburbia, and all it promises, has become the American Dream. But as we enter the 21st century, serious questions are beginning to emerge...
Writing
Kunstler's 'geography of nowhere' thesis hits harder every year.
Direction
Archival footage of endless highways becomes accidental horror.
Director
Gregory Greene
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Released months before The Sopranos finale, both diagnosing the same suburban spiritual emptiness—one fictional, one geological.
Matthew Simmons died in 2010 still warning; the film's peak oil timeline was wrong about timing, devastating about direction.
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This is the very best movie out there on Peak Oil and how the world is going to change as a result of declining oil. Some of the most interesting chapters are in the middle of the film where we see the utter dependance of the USA on oil in agriculture and transportation. I most highly recommend this documentary to everyone.
@LocalFuture
This is the film that started it all for me...I've been preparing for Peak Oil for several years now....
@dustmonk74 1
I live in the (canadian) suburbs and I see this as nothing but a good thing. It's not like the our houses are gonna get BULLDOZED for not being downtown. If enough people can't afford to drive cars in suburbia, there's going to be a massive swell in people taking public transit, biking, and walking, which will drive a change in infrastructure and allocation of taxes. All of our former suburbs are now being designed with walkable neighbourhoods, bike infrastsructure, and really solid transit!
@oceaneffex
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